[Sugar-devel] Happy / Sad laptop system load monitor

[Walter Bender]

Even Chrome developers have bad judgement on occasion :P (Actually the
issue is that :) is too vague for the range of issues that can impact the
system. It sufficiently precise for the Chrome application).

-walter


On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 2:36 PM, Bernie Innocenti <bernie at sugarlabs.org>
wrote:

> Look, even Chrome copied our design to show users that they're opening too
> many tabs! :-)
>
>   http://imgur.com/Ep6VhC0
>
>
>
> On 05/23/14 09:50, Walter Bender wrote:
>
>> On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 9:32 AM, Sebastian Silva
>> <sebastian at fuentelibre.org <mailto:sebastian at fuentelibre.org>> wrote:
>>
>>     Thans for the archeology Bernie!
>>
>>     I agree that perhaps happy/sad isn't the proper metaphor. I remember
>>     having a similar WindowMaker dockapp, that would show the face from
>>     Doom's guy for the same purpose. Not very informative, but fun.
>>
>>     Now, about this implementation, as i remember, once the palette is
>>     open, proper cpu/mem graphs appear. Perhaps we can come up with a
>>     less emotionally loaded metaphor.
>>
>>     I would disagree that user's shouldn't need to know this data, in
>>     fact with such a constrained machine as XO it is pretty useful
>>     feedback and as I remember it was part of the original Sugar design
>>     (it was not in the frame, but in the home view's relative area of
>>     use for each active icon).
>>
>>
>> The original Sugar design used a different approach (a circle of
>> activities filling up in the center of the home screen). My objection to
>> the Smiley implementation was not that users shouldn't need to know
>> these data. Rather, not enough information was available and it was
>> over-simplifying something complex, masking the inherent complexity.
>>
>>
>>     Regards,
>>     Sebastian
>>
>>     El vie, 23 de may 2014 a las 6:08 AM, Walter Bender
>>     <walter.bender at gmail.com <mailto:walter.bender at gmail.com>> escribió:
>>
>>      +1 to something like conky, which is real information instead of
>>>     pretending to give the kids information. if you want smiley faces,
>>>     they should have real data behind them.
>>>
>>>     regards.
>>>
>>>     -walter
>>>
>>>
>>>     On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 5:16 AM, Iain Brown Douglas
>>>     <iain at browndouglas.plus.com <mailto:iain at browndouglas.plus.com>>
>>>
>>>     wrote:
>>>
>>>         On Thu, 2014-05-22 at 22:34 -0005, Sebastian Silva wrote:
>>>         > Hi,
>>>         > I remember Sugar as deployed in Dextrose 1 had a signature
>>>         happy/sad
>>>         > laptop icon and both memory / cpu load indicators.
>>>         >
>>>         >
>>>         > I am dogfooding Sugar again on a memory constrained laptop
>>>         and am in
>>>         > need of a memory monitor, and this would be lovely.
>>>         >
>>>         >
>>>         > Is that code alive? Maybe it was a good idea to have by
>>> default.
>>>         >
>>>         I remember testing that on a low resource machine and the
>>>         avatar lagged
>>>         the events, and was not educational.
>>>
>>>         I felt that the ability to embed a couple of elements from
>>>         conky [1] in
>>>         the frame would be superior. I have found conky to be
>>>         understood by very
>>>         young testers.
>>>
>>>         Regards,
>>>         Iain
>>>
>>>         [1] http://conky.sourceforge.net/
>>>         >
>>>         > Regards,
>>>         > Sebastian
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>>>
>>>     --
>>>     Walter Bender
>>>     Sugar Labs
>>>     http://www.sugarlabs.org
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Walter Bender
>> Sugar Labs
>> http://www.sugarlabs.org
>>
>
>
> --
> Bernie Innocenti
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Walter Bender
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